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Revolutions are still televised, but they get Tumblr'd, tweeted and YouTubed ﬁrst. This one started last summer when music micro-bloggers began deifying a pack of nine skateboarding, freewheeling teenaged rap vandals from Los Angeles. Full name: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All — or OFWGKTA if you're into brevity. Like most Internet contagions, the ﬁrst germs of information spread via viral video. Directed by the crew's founder, Tyler, the Creator, the clip for a song called "French" felt like Larry Clark's "Kids" updated for the "Jackass" and American Apparel generation: full of skateboarding, vomiting, automatic...

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Revolutions are still televised, but they get Tumblr'd, tweeted and YouTubed ﬁrst. This one started last summer when music micro-bloggers began deifying a pack of nine skateboarding, freewheeling teenaged rap vandals from Los Angeles. Full name: Odd...

May 6 The Beaver A once-successful toy executive and family man suffering from depression begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet. With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and Anton Yelchin. Written by Kyle Killen. Directed by Foster. Summit...

Jimmy CastorWrote hit song 'Troglodyte (Cave Man)'
Jimmy Castor, a funk and soul saxophonist, singer and songwriter best known for "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" and "It's Just Begun," died Monday of apparent heart failure...

Traveling hip-hop festival Rock the Bells is taking a page out of the genre’s history books by focusing on a set of game-changing albums for this year's showcase. Though still relatively downsized from lineups of the past, a who’s who ...

Selda, Sly and the Family Stone, William Onyeabor, Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band and Pat Jordache make the cut. The Portland, Ore.-based singer and songwriter Merrill Garbus records music as Tuneyards, whose new album, “Who Kill,” will no doubt land ...

The actor’s first directing project, the new documentary ‘Beats, Rhymes and Life,’ is his bid to show A Tribe Called Quest’s ongoing influence on hip-hop. Over a dozen years since abdicating its spot as rap’s pacesetter, the New York hip-hop ...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Aug. 21 - 27 in PDF format TV listings for the week of Aug. 21 - 27 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found ...

'Dexter' recap: One of the biggest issues I’ve had with “Dexter” in seasons past is how comparatively weak the Miami Police Department storylines are compared to the rest of the show — they’re murder cops, after all, not accountants. Why did they have to be so

Sundance Film Festival is perhaps best known for its narrative and dramatic competitions, but the real business in Park City, Utah, is done around the Sundance Film Festival premieres — and none of the features announced Monday has a distribution deal in place

Todd Martens looks at the week in the music charts. For Adele, it's week No. 23 at the top of the U.S. pop charts. The week's top debut, and indeed the only debut inside the top 10, is Kid Cudi's psychedelic rock project WZRD. And genre-hopping jazz pianist Ro

Veteran rapper/producer Q-Tip has inked a deal with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint. Best known as the frontman of iconic rap group A Tribe Called Quest, the Grammy Award-winner is currently working on his forth solo album, “The Last Zulu,” which will rele

Traveling hip-hop festival Rock the Bells announced this year's three-city tour stops will be held on two consecutive days in each of its three host cities. The lineup features the return of Missy Elliott and a host of young buzzy MCs, including ASAP Rocky and